56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

(56k.rip)

28 points | by adunk 2 hours ago

14 comments

  • uproarchat 2 minutes ago
    It was fun chatting with you guys :D
  • asxndu 3 minutes ago
    Why do the websites feel faster than modern internet?
  • illusive4080 43 minutes ago
    Cool, but webpages load too fast.
  • brightball 5 minutes ago
    Beautiful.

    Now we just need to bring back BBS’s and the daily turn based games. Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, etc.

  • dnewcome 1 hour ago
  • riddley 52 minutes ago
    Fun and cool. The News made me chuckle.
  • russellbeattie 26 minutes ago
    I'm sure someone pointed this out in the other thread, but 56kpbs modems essentially didn't exist in 1996. They launched at the end of the year, cost a ton, and the manufacturers hadn't standardized the speeds, so it really didn't matter much as you weren't browsing AOL, MSN or Compuserve with it yet.

    33.6k.rip is a harder domain name to get though, so I get it.

  • rvz 40 minutes ago
    [dupe] see previous conversations in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340252
  • Vaslo 25 minutes ago
    A lot of people don’t know how cool it felt to dial into the internet or a service like Compuserve or Prodigy and suddenly have this whole world open up to you. Even at 56k.
    • doginasuit 14 minutes ago
      The patience we had waiting for, uh, pictures to load. The world will never know that kind of dedication again.
  • the_hoffa 37 minutes ago
    Reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/3227/

    Select modem mode and just hurt.

  • Xeoncross 19 minutes ago
    That reminds me. Can we standardize cypress tests to load the website via a restricted speed as one of the tests? Some of of our modern webpages are still slow on the latest iPhone/Pixel/Samsung over 5G.

    8,600,743 bytes of assets and frameworks later I'm finally able to see your contact-us address.

  • braden-lk 4 minutes ago
    I miss it.
  • onetokeoverthe 1 hour ago
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